True Crime or Crime Fiction
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2023 category: True Crime or Crime Fiction. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed.
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I Know Who You Are
A retiree researching her family history explains how she used her knowledge of DNA data to uncover the culprit of the Golden State Killer crime spree, a cold case that had baffled law enforcement for decades.
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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Ernie Cunningham, the narrator of this exceptionally clever and amusing mystery from Stevenson (Either Side of Midnight), hooks the reader immediately with his opening words: "Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once." (Publisher’s Weekly)
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Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
When she discovers a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, Vera Wong, a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands, calls the police but not before swiping the flash drive from the body, setting a trap for the killer that becomes complicated by unexpected friendships with her customers.
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Confident Women
The acclaimed author of Lady Killers returns with a new collection about notorious female con artists and their outrageous scams, from Jeanne de Saint-Rémy who scammed jewelers in 1700s Paris to Roxie Ann Rice who scammed the NFL in 1975.
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Winter Counts
Virgil Wounded Horse is the local enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. When justice is denied by the American legal system or the tribal council, Virgil is hired to deliver his own punishment, the kind that's hard to forget. But when heroin makes its way into the reservation and finds Virgil's nephew, his vigilantism suddenly becomes personal.
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